Home Health & Hospice Week

Newly introduced legislation addresses face-toface encounter problems. Home care providers may be working hard to comply with the physician face-to-face encounter rule after the April 1 enforcement date, but they're still looking for relief from the new burden. The National Association for Home Care & Hospice is tracking the results of the F2F requirement with a one-page survey providers fill out weekly. "The purpose of this tracking effort is to gather the data needed to support advocacy efforts to rescind and reform the face-to-face encounter requirement," NAHC says in its member newsletter. "The potential for doing so hinges on whether patients are adversely affected in terms of their access to care." Using a weekly survey aims to "provide near real-time identification of outcome concerns that could spur Congress into action on the issue," NAHC adds. The survey focuses on three potential adverse outcomes for patients: (1) denial of access at [...]